Saturday, May 18, 2013

Dailymation- The Reverse jesus Effect

I just got back from the Cannes film festival this morning, where we presented "The congress" as the opening film of the Director's Fortnight. we had a fantastic screening and a lot of good responses.

Overall this was a very fun week, I got to hang out with my crew who I didn't see for quite some time, and it was great to see the film finally on the big screen!

Yesterday we were invited to a cocktail on the beach (Lots of good food and alcohol), where David Polonsky (The Film's art director) and myself started playing with stuff on the table and animating it, naturally alcohol played a big part in it (in the animation of course!)

so as I couldn't do my regular hand drawn dailymation on the festival, I am proud to present the very first stopmotion dailymation!

These clips were created in collaboration with David Polonsky, who was also the hand actor and supervised finishing off the Champagne, and with a very cool software called Imotion HD on my iPhone.

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About this Blog

Most of my career as an animator revolved around fast, efficient animations, mainly Flash cutouts. Some time ago I got sick of the technicality of cutouts & decided to return to the basics of frame by frame animation. to get my hand back in shape I started doing Dailymations- short, sketchy, rough & FUN animations, more about mass and movement and less about fine, clean animation. each one about an hour's work (more or less). These are done with toonboom Harmony.

Every now and then I'll post some of my other stuff, but this is mostly about dailymations.

About Me

born 1976. Began my career as an illustrator and designer for Israeli newspapers. While studying in the department of Visual Communication at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, I fell in love with animation and haven't stopped making it since. After graduation worked as a freelance animator and illustrator for numerous TV Shows and commercials.

in 2004 started to work as director of animation for Ari Folman's documentary series, "The material that love is made of", creating 3 five minute animation shorts to be combined in the series. The successful connection with Ari led to our next collaboration with me as director of animation for the acclaimed award winning feature "Waltz with Bashir" (http://www.waltzwithbashir.com),

Since then I worked as a freelance animator, making several short films for human rights organizations. From 2011 to 2013 I worked as director of animation on Ari Folman's film "The Congress" (http://www.thecongress-movie.com)- managing the work of 7 animation studios worldwide (animation studios in Israel, Luxembourg, Brussels, Berlin andHamburg and cleanup studios in Poland and the Philippines).